{"id":36388,"date":"2014-05-04T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36388"},"modified":"2014-05-04T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:30:29","slug":"g-o-p-hopeful-finds-tribal-tie-cuts-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36388","title":{"rendered":"G.O.P. Hopeful Finds Tribal Tie Cuts Both Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/gop-hopeful-finds-tribal-tie-cuts-both-ways.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>G.O.P. Hopeful Finds Tribal Tie Cuts Both Ways<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2014-05-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/jonathan_martin\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jonathan Martin<\/strong><\/a>, National Political Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bartlesville,_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">BARTLESVILLE, Okla.<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T.W._Shannon\" target=\"_blank\">T. W. Shannon<\/a> will be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma\u2019s<\/a> first black senator if he wins the Republican nomination and is elected this November, but the quiet campaign stirring here about Mr. Shannon\u2019s racial loyalties is not aimed at the African-American branch of his family tree.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Shannon, whose first name is Tahrohon, is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chickasaw_Nation\" target=\"_blank\">Chickasaw Nation<\/a>, the most influential tribe in a state where Native Americans are not merely the inheritors of a poignant history but also collectively constitute the state\u2019s largest nongovernment employer outside of Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those jobs are connected to Oklahoma\u2019s 110-and-counting casinos, which are becoming as familiar here as oil derricks. Yet the gambling revenue that has showered millions on some of the state\u2019s Native Americans has also bred resentment over the tribes\u2019 expanding footprint. Now, as Mr. Shannon vies to make history, he has become both the political beneficiary of the tribes\u2019 newfound wealth and a target for complaints about Native American sovereignty and possible competing loyalties&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/gop-hopeful-finds-tribal-tie-cuts-both-ways.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G.O.P. Hopeful Finds Tribal Tie Cuts Both Ways The New York Times 2014-05-03 Jonathan Martin, National Political Correspondent BARTLESVILLE, Okla. \u2014 T. W. Shannon will be Oklahoma\u2019s first black senator if he wins the Republican nomination and is elected this November, but the quiet campaign stirring here about Mr. Shannon\u2019s racial loyalties is not aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,3015,26,20],"tags":[14577,2640,1777,17297,2327],"class_list":["post-36388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-politics","category-usa","tag-jonathan-martin","tag-new-york-times","tag-oklahoma","tag-t-w-shannon","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}